4 maddeningly fragile reasons why Apple MacBook owners sometimes irk Windows laptop lovers

There are more Apples in your typical Starbucks store than a Washington State orchard. It’s great to get away from your office, order a latté, sit down in a comfortable chair and open up your laptop for a little bit of light surfing or media consumption. But if you aren’t in possession of the latest XPS, ThinkPad X1, or Microsoft Surface device, you should expect a lot of amused looks coming your way from owners of those shiny silver beauties with flashy fruit logos – you will soon be the deer caught in their ubiquitous lights.

Got a brand-new GeForce RTX 30 series laptop GPU ready for action in your Windows-based laptop and you know the Zen 3 AMD Ryzen chip or 11^th Gen Intel Core processor inside it can handle anything you’re going to throw at it. No way a MacBook could handle a similar level of gaming action, certainly not natively. But sometimes you just want to play Solitaire, or laugh your way through Instagram, or maybe indulge in a bit of a Netflix binge – and all of these things are just as easy to do on a MacBook. Better get down to your local superstore and buy a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War now, soldier, before you get converted.

You’ve used a Windows-based laptop throughout your days of education and/or working life. You love the endless custom possibilities, the more “open” ecosystem (pre-Windows 11), the ease of repair or reconfiguration. But that MacBook Pro 14 with M1 Pro SoC and that 16-inch model with the M1 Max chip...damn they look good! Fast you say? High performance levels really? Superfast integrated graphics support? Incredible displays and next-level processing prowess? All this goodness will likely lead the average hardcore Windows-based laptop devotee to dismissively mutter that immutable phrase: “yeah…but it’s still a MacBook”, while perhaps secretly wishing they had one but it was made by Dell or Lenovo instead.